Policy Manager - Allen + Clarke Consulting

Closing date

22 Sep 2019

Job Location

Melbourne

Job Description

Are you an experienced health or human services policy manager? Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to be part of a team growing our business in Australia? Allen + Clarke is a consultancy firm that provides policy, regulatory, business change, evaluation, research, and secretariat services to government, private sector and not-for-profit clients. We operate across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, and Asia.

About us:

We are well-recognised as a policy leader: our clients come to us for trusted advice on a wide range of issues.

We’ve been around for 20 years and opened our Melbourne office at the start of 2019. We are looking for additional expertise to join our team.

At Allen + Clarke our company purpose is to mobilise passionate and capable people to tackle the challenges facing our society.

We are all about relationships – we choose carefully who we want to work with (that includes our staff, our partners and our clients).

We regularly work on projects that focus on social justice/equity in Australia, NZ and the Pacific.

Here’s a very short list of examples:

Evaluation of the Australian Government’s Investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care through the Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme

Evaluation of the Child Health Check and the Expanding Health Services Delivery Initiative in the Northern Territory

Assisting Workbridge NZ to develop a business case to source funding for their future activities assisting people with disabilities into the workforce

We also have a pro bono programme each year where Allen + Clarke supports a number of agencies with free policy, evaluation and business change services.

An example of this was an evaluation of the ‘Turning the Curve’ driving program for New Zealand’s ChangeMakers Refugee Forum. The purpose of the evaluation was to better understand how Turning the Curve, a driver training program for former refugee women in the Wellington region, works and why it works, to inform its implementation moving forward.